Chronic pain is different than the pain that you get from a bad night of sleep. When you sleep in a bad position, or are only able to sleep for a small amount of time, you may wake up in the morning with soreness issues in part of your body. You may feel tightness in your neck, a “tender” portion of your torso, or shoulders that hurt when you move them. The good news about this type of pain is that it tends to go away after a few hours of moving around; meaning that by lunchtime the discomfort that you felt in the morning will only be a memory. Chronic pain, on the other hand, does not go away. You don’t just wake up with pain in your shoulders, you live your entire day with it; sometimes it may even get worse as the day goes on.
In addition to not going away throughout the day, chronic pain issues do not get better over time, they tend to get worse, at least when they are not properly treated. Shoulder pain is only going to get worse over time, especially if one is dealing with an issue with a nerve ending or a bone spur that is not being treated. While over-the-counter medication will only be able to mask some of the pain, getting professional treatment from a Pensacola Bone Doctor is the best way to make sure that you get the outcome you are looking for. A bone doctor will be able to not just figure out what the issue is, but also what the treatment should be.
The problem with “self” treating a lot of chronic issues is that the portion of the body that is hurting may not be the part of the body that is causing the pain. For example, neck or shoulder pain may come from a slipped disk in the spine, and leg pain may come from a sciatic nerve issue. Without properly identifying the cause of the pain, you cannot properly treat it, which is why a visit to a Pensacola Bone Doctor sooner rather than later is so important.
